Keith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably State v. Isom (1982), Shell v. Commonwealth (1932)
36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Youman v. Commonwealth · Bowling v. Commonwealth · Price v. Commonwealth · Bennett v. Commonwealth · Royce v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly the General Assembly has power to change the common law rule of evidence by properly enacted statutes, and having undertaken in the proper manner to authorize the introduction of evidence proving the reputation of a defendant for bootlegging as substantive evidence, we can see no reason why such legislation should not be enforced if it does not contravene section 13, or some other provision of our fundamental law. Price v. Comlth., 195 Ky. 711 ; Handshoe v. Comlth., 195 Ky. 762 ; Fletcher v. Comlth., 196 Ky. 625 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.